At a Glance
- Tasks: Create innovative UX designs and collaborate with engineers to bring ideas to life.
- Company: Join a leading tech giant known for its creative culture and impactful projects.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible hybrid work, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Exciting chance to work on cutting-edge projects with a focus on user-centred design.
- Why this job: Shape user experiences and influence product design in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in motion design, UX/UI animation, and strong collaboration skills.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Type: Contract for 6 months (Inside IR35)
Location: hybrid from London (Tue - Thursday onsite)
Job Description
Mandatory proven motion design experience within Product Design or UX/UI animation. As a User Experience (UX) Designer, you own outcomes for one mature project, complex program, or emerging area. You accomplish this by navigating and defining a scalable and sustainable approach to solve difficult problems with limited precedent and/or by developing and evangelizing long-term user experience & product strategy for your team. You influence by guiding the momentum of multiple adjacent design efforts and/or by providing alternative perspectives for your team that challenge prevailing thinking against common objectives and/or by provoking greater divergence of thinking. You apply your expertise by serving as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, design systems, and research tools.
You collaborate with others to deliver work such as:
- Analyzing or anticipating user needs, resolving constraints, and mitigating potential risks.
- Leading the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
- Defining user experience / product strategy for your team.
- Exploring innovative solutions to new or existing problems that explicitly consider and mitigate unintentional harm.
You have a proven ability to design products and deliver outputs including the product or platform, and possess the depth of knowledge, experience, and business acumen required to assess and communicate how well-considered the design work is for appropriateness, longevity, collaboration, scaling.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and/or influence design intention.
- Guide design specifications (e.g., design specs, mock-ups, or product models) for implementation.
- Use and propose new, key data and metrics to evaluate product impact, understand the product ecosystem, user trends, and industry (e.g., competitors) by collaborating across teams when developing design solutions.
- Drive improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide input and feedback to engage stakeholders on product design and achieve product goals.
- Build consensus across teams and gain support for design strategy across stakeholders.
- Communicate design approach to other designers or stakeholders (e.g., product manager), addressing and anticipating challenges and questions.
- Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project.
- Act on opportunities to expand responsibilities within the immediate product team.
- Create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business objectives.
- Support stakeholders in achieving key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Create innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
- Anticipate evolving design constraints and communicate rationale of choices related to design solutions.
- Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
- Perform design and testing processes and help develop and generate support for a design vision with partners.
- Guide UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing or conduct research independently to inform design.
- Seek research insights to develop the appropriate design direction.
- Apply, adapt, and/or define UX design frameworks for user experiences, including principles, patterns, and systems.
- Leverage writing and design tools to visualize ideas or develop mock-ups or prototypes to drive the product vision forward.
- Tailor deliverables based on product or platform requirements independently.
- Identify and follow writing and design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.
- Propose ideas to improve UX by analyzing or anticipating user needs through collaboration with others, and solve constraints in strategy, product, or technology.
Qualifications
- Data analysis, synthesis & planning
- Product design (Knowledge)
- Interactive technology
- UX research methodology
- Product development lifecycle
- Aesthetic sensibility
- User behavior
- Presentations
- Storytelling
- Systems thinking
- Craftsmanship
- Proven motion design experience within Product Design or UX/UI animation.
UX Designer - GOG1JP in London employer: Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Randstad Technologies is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture in the heart of London, offering employees the chance to thrive in a fast-paced environment. With a strong focus on professional development, we provide ample opportunities for growth and advancement within the IT sector, alongside competitive benefits that enhance work-life balance. Join us to be part of a supportive team that values innovation and collaboration, making every day at work both meaningful and rewarding.
Contact Details:
Randstad Technologies Recruitment Recruitment Team